30 Patella depressa. Shell length 28mm. Mantle removed from viscera of male with gonads. Lleyn, Wales. September 2015.
1: long coiled intestine compacts faeces into firm strings that will not contaminate pallial gills.
2: digestive gland.
3: rectum.
4: course of radula between pair of purple-pink cartilage bolsters of odontophore; visible through translucent epithelium of head.
5: extra large muscle bundle in pedal-retractor muscle to pull down anterior of shell.
6: heart.
7: male gonads (testes).
8: opaque, pigmented chalky-white pallial tentacles.
9: translucent mantle-skirt.
10: black mantle covering pallial-groove.
SPECIES DESCRIPTION part A 1Pd flic.kr/p/BaSA3C
SPECIES DESCRIPTION part B 2Pd flic.kr/p/AfbFkR
Key id. features 3Pd flic.kr/p/Ay7bhf
OTHER SPECIES ALBUMS
30 Patella depressa. Shell length 28mm. Mantle removed from viscera of male with gonads. Lleyn, Wales. September 2015.
1: long coiled intestine compacts faeces into firm strings that will not contaminate pallial gills.
2: digestive gland.
3: rectum.
4: course of radula between pair of purple-pink cartilage bolsters of odontophore; visible through translucent epithelium of head.
5: extra large muscle bundle in pedal-retractor muscle to pull down anterior of shell.
6: heart.
7: male gonads (testes).
8: opaque, pigmented chalky-white pallial tentacles.
9: translucent mantle-skirt.
10: black mantle covering pallial-groove.
SPECIES DESCRIPTION part A 1Pd flic.kr/p/BaSA3C
SPECIES DESCRIPTION part B 2Pd flic.kr/p/AfbFkR
Key id. features 3Pd flic.kr/p/Ay7bhf
OTHER SPECIES ALBUMS